About EcoGrow

Built from the ground
up.

EcoGrow Farms Limited is a Nigerian agribusiness operating farmland in Ede, Osun State, Nigeria — and building the intelligence tools that African farms have always needed but never had.

We are not a technology company that adopted an agricultural theme. We are farmers who had to become technologists because the tools we needed did not exist.

Our Story

A farm that ran out of excuses and built its own tools.

EcoGrow Farms was founded in 2019 in Nigeria, with a simple premise: that African agriculture deserved intelligence tools built for African conditions — not adapted from systems designed for Iowa or Normandy.

For the first two seasons, we farmed the way most Nigerian operations do: by experience, by proximity, by guesswork. Then in 2021, we lost a tomato block to early blight we didn't detect in time. A maize block failed in a dry spell we had no early warning of. Two seasons. Two preventable losses. Two reasons to build something.

CropSentinel came first — a yield-failure prediction model trained on African satellite imagery and soil data. When it worked on our land, we opened it to others. SoilPulse, HarvestIQ, and IrrigateAI followed. Each one started as a problem on our own farm. Each one is now a product any farmer, cooperative, or agency can deploy.

We remain an operating farm. We grow maize, tomatoes, peppers, cassava, soybeans, and sesame from our Ede, Osun State base. The farm is not a demonstration garden — it is a commercial operation, and every tool we sell is one we depend on ourselves.

2019

Founded in Nigeria. First season planted on the Ede, Osun State farm.

~600 ha

Cultivated in Ede, Osun State, Nigeria.

4 products

Intelligence tools built on our own farm, opened to the world.

2,800+

Farmers reached by CropSentinel SMS alerts in the Southwest Nigeria pilot.

What We Stand For

Six principles that drive every decision we make.

We built EcoGrow because we believed African agriculture deserved better. These are the beliefs that shape how we farm, how we build, and who we work with.

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African-First by Design

Every model we build is trained on African crop data. Every product is designed for African infrastructure constraints — including no GSM, no internet, and no electricity grid.

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Skin in the Game

We sell nothing we don't use ourselves. If CropSentinel is wrong on our farm, we lose yield. That accountability makes our products better than those built by people who don't farm.

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Data Without Gatekeeping

We believe farmers deserve access to the same quality of intelligence that commodity traders and multinational agribusinesses use. We are building the infrastructure to make that real.

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Partnerships Over Transactions

Our institutional relationships — with agencies, insurers, and government ministries — are built around shared outcomes, not software licences. We measure success by harvest outcomes, not MRR.

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Documentation as Infrastructure

Traceability, compliance, and institutional trust are built on records. We treat documentation as a first-class product — not an afterthought — because it's how African agriculture unlocks global markets.

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Sustainable by Necessity

We practise cover cropping, composting, and water-use optimisation because they are economically rational — not because of a marketing brief. Climate-smart farming is profitable farming.

The Team

The people who built EcoGrow — and still run it.

Our team combines agricultural engineering, community development, agribusiness operations, and technology. Everyone at EcoGrow has worked in the field — not just read about it.

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Haleemah

Director, Farm Operations

Nigeria

Graduate of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering from the University of Ilorin. Bridges the gap between technical engineering and practical, large-scale farming. Oversees poultry management, commercial fisheries, and value-added agro-processing — including high-volume groundnut oil production and custom-formulated chicken feed. Formerly recognised with an Award of Excellence at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

Biosystems engineering Poultry & fisheries Agro-processing Supply chain

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Teslim Oyeleke

Business & Technology Lead

Nigeria

Multidisciplinary professional with a background spanning banking operations, sales and marketing, business analysis, and financial markets. Holds a BSc in Biochemistry and a Diploma in Cloud Engineering. Brings expertise in project automation, data analysis, and operational efficiency — connecting EcoGrow's technical infrastructure with its commercial and strategic goals.

Cloud engineering Business analysis Data analysis Project automation

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Sule Kamilu

Head of Community & Extension

Osun State, Nigeria

Community development and agricultural extension professional with over a decade of field experience across rural livelihoods, M&E, farmer-group facilitation, and development programme delivery. Trained in environmental assessment, sustainable land management, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and digital extension systems. Leads EcoGrow's community engagement, farmer outreach, and extension delivery — the human infrastructure that makes our SMS alerts and soil prescriptions reach the people who need them.

Agricultural extension Community development M&E Rural livelihoods

"We are not a technology company that named itself after agriculture. We are farmers who had to become technologists because the tools we needed did not exist."

That distinction matters. It means our products are shaped by the experience of losing a harvest, not by a product roadmap written in a co-working space. Every feature in CropSentinel exists because we needed it. Every SMS alert format was tested on our own farmers. Every soil prescription has been cross-checked against our agronomist's judgement on our own fields.

— EcoGrow Farms, founded on the problem

Built from the groundup.

A farm that ran out of excuses and built its own tools.

Six principles that drive every decision we make.

The people who built EcoGrow — and still run it.

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Built from the ground
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